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Robert Franklin Pennell
Born	1850
Died	1905  (aged 54–55)

Robert Franklin Pennell (July 13, 1850 – October 22, 1905) was an American educator and classicist.

Pennell was born on July 13, 1850, in Freeport, Maine, to Robert and Caroline Pennell. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1868, where his uncle, Gideon Lane Soule, was principal, and from Harvard University in 1871 with a degree in classics. Following his graduation, he became an instructor at Exeter, later teaching Latin. He resigned in 1882, seven years after in 1889 becoming the principal of the Marysville schools in California. From 1890 to 1893 he was president of the Stockton, California, schools, and from 1893 to 1897 he was president of Chico State Normal School. He died on October 22, 1905, in San Francisco, California.

Works

• Ancient Greece, from the earliest times down to the death of Alexander, 1874
• Rome, from the earliest times down to 476 A.D., 1878
• The Latin Subjunctive, 1895

References

1. Bachelor of Arts Harvard University 1871 Graduates
2. Cunningham, Frank Herbert (1883). Familiar Sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and Surroundings. J. R. Osgood. robert pennell.
3. Chico University Archives - University Presidents

External links

• Works by Robert Franklin Pennell at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Robert Franklin Pennell at the Internet Archive
• Works by Robert Franklin Pennell at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Ancient Rome: from the earliest times down to 476 A.D. at Project Gutenberg

• 1850 births
• 1905 deaths
• American classical scholars
• California State University, Chico faculty
• Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
• Harvard University alumni
• People from Marysville, California
• People from Stockton, California
• Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
• Phillips Exeter Academy faculty